In early 1950s, Egypt's Nasser
was in regular communication with Moshe Sharett, Ben-Gurion's foreign minister, and the
second Prime Minister of Israel. Therefore there was a real possibility of an
Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement back then.

In fiscal year 1970,
Israel received military credits from the United States worth $30 million. But thanks to a
Jackson amendment, the next year the amount skyrocketed to $545 million. By 1974, it had
reached an extraordinary $2.2 billion, more than seventy times what it had been just four
years earlier. "We have a hero, and his name is Henry Jackson," gushed Mitchell
Wohlberg, a Washington D.C. rabbi. (A Pretext for War, p. 273)

Geographics

Land Size: slightly smaller than New Jersey

Total: 20,770 sq km

Water: 440 sq km

60% of the new Israel was desert, but irrigation has changed the landscape

Israel Returns City of Quneitra to Syria, after it was captured in 1967
War. Controversy over whether Israel bulldozed the city, or it was destroyed in fighting
between Israel and Syria. UN says Israel destroyed the city. June 1974.